etiological
/ˌiːtɪəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/adjective
etiological is spelled E-T-I-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is ethiological: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 34 of all searches for the word. Etiological is an adjective meaning “Relating to an etiology”.
How do you spell etiological?
Etiological is spelled E-T-I-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 34 of the searches for etiological in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does etiological mean?
adjective
- 1
Relating to an etiology
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce etiological?
- /ˌiːtɪəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of etiological
- more etiological comparative
- most etiological superlative
- aetiological
- ætiological
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is etiological?
Etiological appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Etiological in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | étiologique |
| German | ätiologisch |
| Portuguese | etiológico |
| Spanish | etiológico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.